POLICE have warned householders to be on their guard against thieves who snatched ornamental chimney pots from outside two houses on the same night.

POLICE have warned householders to be on their guard against thieves who snatched ornamental chimney pots from outside two houses on the same night.

A silver van was spotted close to a property in Collingwood, Clayton-le-Moors, before a crown chimney pot worth £150 was taken from the garden. Intruders who struck at another house in Lomax Street, Great Harwood, removed plants from inside two chimney pots worth £100 before making off with them.